#podcasts

Thoughts on Personalized Podcasts

Podcasts have exploded in popularity ( About half of Americans have listened to a podcast in the past year ). What started as a niche medium has become a platform for everyone from celebrities to politicians to business leaders. We're even seeing podcasts dig into deep technical content, including scientific papers. Recently, we have seen tools such as NotebookLM and Eleven Labs Reader that let you make podcast episodes out of pieces of text, using AI. Despite this innovation, the core experience of listening to a podcast episode, regardless of how it was generated, remains static. Once the ho

Often Wrong · EN

Reflections on a Photographic Life and Practice

Judging our photographic lives by shutter presses alone overlooks the many other practices through which we participate in, learn from, and sustain photographic life and culture more broadly.

Excited Pixels · EN

Podcasting the world

It’s been my pleasure to be involved with a number of podcasts focusing on reading and/or translation in recent months in various capacities – as a guest, interviewer and producer. As such, I thought I’d give a roundup of some of my favourites, not least because I suspect people who like this blog would enjoy […]

A year of reading the world · EN

Billboard Launching ‘Up & Coming’ Music Podcast With SickBird Productions

The new video podcast, hosted by Billboard staff writer Kyle Denis, will treat listeners to conversations with music's hottest breakthrough acts across genres.

Billboard · EN

Will Melania Trump save Ukraine?

In the last month or so, President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again relationship with Ukraine — which has ranged from kicking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the White House in early 2025 to promising new air defense missiles this summer — has once again run cold. Trump has excoriated Zelenskyy for successful Ukrainian strikes on Russian […]

Vox · EN

Are you over-optimizing your hobbies?

We often pick up hobbies to add some fun to our lives. We join a book group, take up knitting, or commit to finally learning how to play pickleball. But before long, what started out as leisure can begin to feel like just another obligation to execute and perfect: We fall behind in the reading, […]

Vox · EN

A MAGA whisperer on why Republicans can still win

With the midterms now upon us, polls continue to suggest that we’re headed for a blue wave election. One thing that might stop it is if Republican voters come out in big numbers on Election Day. But is MAGA even united behind their candidates? And do they have a plan to motivate a base that […]

Vox · EN